It helps
researchers see which results have already been revisited. For instructors it
helps to identify practical examples for which data and code are available in a
software format that is accessible to their students. In our experience it
helps to motivate students to study quantitative methodology and to approach
published results with healthy scientific scepticism.

Originally the
Wiki was founded for economics. By now a number of studies from other social
sciences were included, in particular political sciences and sociology. It has
been cited
as a project to follow also from fields like empirical law and empirical
archaeology. Contributors are welcome! As the project is set up as a wiki
website, any researcher can participate. After registration
with one’s real name and an institutional email address one can for example add
replications or studies that should be replicated, announce relevant events,
discuss
suggestions how to improve the project, set up one’s own user page and vote
on which studies should be replicated. Registrations just to signal support for
the project are also welcome. The ReplicationWiki is meant for an international
audience and is therefore set up in English. Adding studies in other languages
to its database is however welcome, and users can write in their own language
on their user page to help others find them.